Galladog

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• May 20, 2019

• #1

Hi All, I'm considering a chassis change, I would have to do it on a single drive so it would be a lift body and roll the chassis forward.
How high do I have to lift the body to clear the chassis ?
Also 110 DCPU, doors, seats, floors removed, how many friends do I have to invite around for a few beers to lift it ?
Cheers Galladog

 

Last edited: May 20, 2019

Beneagles

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• May 20, 2019

• #2

Not by much - if you take the engine out and gear box out. The height of the gear stick if you only remove the engine. A lot higher if you don't remove either!

 

Galladog

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• May 20, 2019

• #3

Thanks, was going to remove the wings, bonnet and gear stick then roll the chassis forward with engine and g box in place.

 

Retroanaconda

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• May 20, 2019

• #4

High enough for the sills to clear the wheels.

 

kevstar

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• May 20, 2019

• #5

I jacked mine up & sat it on keel blocks, removed my wheels & tyres & fitted an old set of steel wheels (without tyres), then dropped the chassis & lifted it higher with my engine crane blocked it up & out it came.

 

landowner

Pensioner Pete

Full Member

• May 20, 2019

• #6

Only have to take gearstick off front panel and wings, jack it all up, support body (I used scaffold poles) and then after undoing all the bolts chassis to body, fuel lines etc etc, let the chassis down away from the body. I did it on my own when I was nearly seventy.

 

landowner

Pensioner Pete

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• May 20, 2019

• #7

Pics might help
Don't forget seatboxes are quite low and have to clear rear wheels

 

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Oldseadog

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• May 21, 2019

• #8

landowner said:

Pics might help
Don't forget seatboxes are quite low and have to clear rear wheels

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Scaffs tressles and stands ar just about all that's needed, any yours seem to havew been well used over many years.
If using friends to lift, remember to have two on each end of the scaff pole, as the body is heavier than many people think!
If you remove the gear stick, you won't have to lift it very much ... between 18" and a couplpe of feet shoould be enough.
Oh, and roll the chassis out forward.

 

Galladog

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• May 21, 2019

• #9

Thanks for the replies, Landowner, how have you positioned the scaffy pole holding the bulkhead ?

 

Retroanaconda

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• May 21, 2019

• #10

I did mine like this

 

landowner

Pensioner Pete

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• May 21, 2019

• #11

Galladog said:

Thanks for the replies, Landowner, how have you positioned the scaffy pole holding the bulkhead ?

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Used straps to hold pole, can't remember what I strapped it to but body hung on pole at front, looking at pic I strapped floor to pole

 

Galladog

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• May 22, 2019

• #12

Thanks for the pictures guys, as they say " a picture says a thousand words"
Cheers Galladog

 

Discodevon

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• May 22, 2019

• #13

landowner said:

Only have to take gearstick off front panel and wings, jack it all up, support body (I used scaffold poles) and then after undoing all the bolts chassis to body, fuel lines etc etc, let the chassis down away from the body. I did it on my own when I was nearly seventy.

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